Rob Keeble
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Well simple. I know many places dont recycle however we do and it results in greater awareness of opportunities to repurpose some of the containers that normally just go straight through to the trash.
Now many moons ago Larry stopped by and taught me the basics to spraying and i have not ceased to be grateful for his lessons then.
It took a while for me to have sink in what he was on about, figured after he must have thought "gee these Canucks or exSafricans must be thick or slow" but hey i finally got it.
So i want to share some tips with u and keep the knowledge alive its a saving and tool right under our noses and darn useful for all sorts of other uses.
1) Glass containers from pasta sauces or jams or u name it. Clean them up soak off the label and stash them in a safe place. I used to use them for storage but not anymore they can drop and break so but as a storage for solvent man u cannot go wrong.
Recently i did a car overhaul and needed storage for all sorts of solvents and liquid waste and used up several bottles. In our location we have a hazardous waste depot where we take used oil old paint stripper or whatever chemicals. They prefer the original container to identify it but hey they also take my glass bottles and i tell em whats inside.
2) Plastic peanut bottles...we used to go through this stuff thankfully i got the number i needed while the going was good. The flow has dried up since the kids moved out but for years these darn good clear solid caps containers just went to recycling.
3) Old spray bottles. since i do the grocery shopping i buy refils but from time to time Linda does it and she dont so when the product is done i use them for water spray bottles for when i am sharpening. Have tried it for raising grain but too much spray in my view so have yet to find the idea one for that application.
4. Cardboard. Now this is also something we break down and have to cut up or bail. Most is not worth keeping. And when Larry first taught me this i really battled to get my mind around where i would find sheets big enough. But low and behold it did not take long for me to find it right in my hands as leftover from a purchase like say a new Tv or genrator box or garden cushion storage trunk box and then to spot the boxes at one of our grocery chains where they make them available for customers to carry the groceries out with rather than pay for bags.
The thing is once u open your eyes to being aware of this stuff sudenly there is no shortage of supply and best of all its free and when used disposable again.
So how do i use card board. Well first up when setting up the spray gun pattern and testing to see how much spray is coming out. But i recently had a brainwave...yeah it took me a while....lying under the car on the asphalt driveway was wrecking good t shirt after T shirt and edging me towards divorce. I could not get the car high enough for my dolly so lying on dolly was out with my stomach. But hey lay a large piece of cardboard down and you can slide around like an eel well in my case maybe a large sea lion lol.
It also works as a bench protector if u are like me and use your bench for whatever. But for that i mostly use the card type paper rolls the roofers use for I dunno what but i get it at the depot and a roll lasts a long time.
So before you just toss out the garbage take note of what is getting thrown out, in my case its easy for me, i see to our recycling and garbage so i go through it before i put it on the sidewalk, in fact i even save the good stuff before then.
Here is a pic of my haul from last nights cleaning out the fridge for garbage day....sadly us empty nesters are struggling to adapt to reduced demand for food since the scavaging kids left. Read larger tool budget coming online. WHEN....someone accepts the reality and savings kick in.
By the way many solvents will settle and clear if u let them rest in a jar like this then u can reuse by carefully pouring off.
Handy if u want to mix ur own shellac too....never done it but its on my list to try.
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Now many moons ago Larry stopped by and taught me the basics to spraying and i have not ceased to be grateful for his lessons then.
It took a while for me to have sink in what he was on about, figured after he must have thought "gee these Canucks or exSafricans must be thick or slow" but hey i finally got it.
So i want to share some tips with u and keep the knowledge alive its a saving and tool right under our noses and darn useful for all sorts of other uses.
1) Glass containers from pasta sauces or jams or u name it. Clean them up soak off the label and stash them in a safe place. I used to use them for storage but not anymore they can drop and break so but as a storage for solvent man u cannot go wrong.
Recently i did a car overhaul and needed storage for all sorts of solvents and liquid waste and used up several bottles. In our location we have a hazardous waste depot where we take used oil old paint stripper or whatever chemicals. They prefer the original container to identify it but hey they also take my glass bottles and i tell em whats inside.
2) Plastic peanut bottles...we used to go through this stuff thankfully i got the number i needed while the going was good. The flow has dried up since the kids moved out but for years these darn good clear solid caps containers just went to recycling.
3) Old spray bottles. since i do the grocery shopping i buy refils but from time to time Linda does it and she dont so when the product is done i use them for water spray bottles for when i am sharpening. Have tried it for raising grain but too much spray in my view so have yet to find the idea one for that application.
4. Cardboard. Now this is also something we break down and have to cut up or bail. Most is not worth keeping. And when Larry first taught me this i really battled to get my mind around where i would find sheets big enough. But low and behold it did not take long for me to find it right in my hands as leftover from a purchase like say a new Tv or genrator box or garden cushion storage trunk box and then to spot the boxes at one of our grocery chains where they make them available for customers to carry the groceries out with rather than pay for bags.
The thing is once u open your eyes to being aware of this stuff sudenly there is no shortage of supply and best of all its free and when used disposable again.
So how do i use card board. Well first up when setting up the spray gun pattern and testing to see how much spray is coming out. But i recently had a brainwave...yeah it took me a while....lying under the car on the asphalt driveway was wrecking good t shirt after T shirt and edging me towards divorce. I could not get the car high enough for my dolly so lying on dolly was out with my stomach. But hey lay a large piece of cardboard down and you can slide around like an eel well in my case maybe a large sea lion lol.
It also works as a bench protector if u are like me and use your bench for whatever. But for that i mostly use the card type paper rolls the roofers use for I dunno what but i get it at the depot and a roll lasts a long time.
So before you just toss out the garbage take note of what is getting thrown out, in my case its easy for me, i see to our recycling and garbage so i go through it before i put it on the sidewalk, in fact i even save the good stuff before then.
Here is a pic of my haul from last nights cleaning out the fridge for garbage day....sadly us empty nesters are struggling to adapt to reduced demand for food since the scavaging kids left. Read larger tool budget coming online. WHEN....someone accepts the reality and savings kick in.
By the way many solvents will settle and clear if u let them rest in a jar like this then u can reuse by carefully pouring off.
Handy if u want to mix ur own shellac too....never done it but its on my list to try.
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